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Post by Gary on Dec 17, 2018 20:50:47 GMT -5
Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' Is Highest-Charting Billboard Hot 100 Holiday Hit in 60 Years
12/17/2018 by Gary Trust
Carey's 1994 carol trails only David Seville & The Chipmunks' 1958 No. 1 'The Chipmunk Song.'
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" becomes the highest-charting yuletide hit in 60 years on the Billboard Hot 100, as it rises from No. 7 to No. 6 (on the chart dated Dec. 22).
Carey's carol is the top-charting song of the season on the Hot 100 since "The Chipmunk Song," by David Seville and The Chipmunks, which remains the only such single to have hit No. 1, for four weeks beginning Dec. 22, 1958 (just after the chart's inception that Aug. 4).
Carey's "Christmas," first released in 1994, hit the top 10 for the first time last holiday season, reaching No. 9; a week ago, it bested that rank, rising to No. 7.
"Christmas" passes two No. 7-peaking Christmas-season songs, by Kenny G and New Kids on the Block, and now trails only "The Chipmunk Song" as the highest-charting such hit in the Hot 100's 60-year history:
Highest-Charting Holiday Songs in the Hot 100's History
No. 1 peak, four weeks, beginning Dec. 22, 1958, "The Chipmunk Song," by David Seville & The Chipmunks
No. 6, Dec. 22, 2018, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey
No. 7, Jan. 8, 2000, "Auld Lang Syne," Kenny G
No. 7, Jan. 6, 1990, "This One's for the Children," New Kids on the Block
No. 9, Feb. 21, 1981, "Same Old Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg
No. 11, Nov. 5, 2011, "Mistletoe," Justin Bieber
No. 12, Jan. 6, 1962, "White Christmas," Bing Crosby
No. 13, Dec. 22, 2018, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams
No. 13, Dec. 21, 2013, "Little Drummer Boy," Pentatonix
No. 13, Jan. 19, 1985, "Do They Know It's Christmas?," Band-Aid
No. 13, Jan. 12, 1959, "The Little Drummer Boy," Harry Simeone Chorale
No. 14, Dec. 26, 1960, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Brenda Lee
No. 15, Dec. 22, 2018, "Jingle Bell Rock," Bobby Helms
No. 15, Jan. 11, 1964, "Pretty Paper," Roy Orbison
No. 16, Jan. 31, 1970, "Winter World of Love," Engelbert Humperdinck
No. 18, Jan. 1, 2000, "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," Christina Aguilera
No. 18, Jan. 6, 1979, "Please Come Home for Christmas," Eagles
Two other songs on the list above this week hit new Hot 100 highs: Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" rises 16-13, and Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" jingle-hops 26-15 (after first appearing on the Hot 100 in 1958, a year after its original release).
As for holiday songs and their eligibility for the Hot 100 over the years, their history is a bit spotty, due in part to shifts in chart rules. As chart historian Joel Whitburn notes in his book Christmas in the Charts, "From 1963 through 1972, and from 1983 through 1985 [with minimal exceptions], Billboard published a seasonal Christmas Singles chart and did not chart Christmas singles on the Hot 100." Per current Hot 100 rules, in place in recent years, older songs, including seasonal titles, can rank in the top 50 if experiencing significant multi-metric gains, and multiple venerable holiday songs re-enter or debut each season.
Not included on the list above are songs with ties to the holiday season but more for their timing, having become hits around Christmastime, than their lyrical content. For instance, Annie Lennox and Al Green's "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" peaked at No. 9 on the Hot 100 in January 1989; it was released from the Scrooged movie soundtrack, but had first been a hit for Jackie DeShannon in August 1969. "Hazy Shade of Winter" includes a lyric about a "Salvation Army band," and was a winter hit for both Simon & Garfunkel (No. 13, 1966) and The Bangles (No. 2, 1988), but is not generally regarded as a Christmas-themed song. And, The Royal Guardsmen hit No. 2 on the Hot 100 in December 1966 with "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron," but it is seasonal spinoff "Snoopy's Christmas," from 1967, that has become a holiday favorite.
Also not considered for the purposes of this research were songs related to other holidays, such as Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers' "Monster Mash" (No. 1 on the Hot 100 for two weeks in October 1962) or Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (No. 4, March 1984), each of which resurges each Halloween.
Carey's modern classic tops the Holiday 100 chart for a 33rd of 38 total weeks since the survey began in 2011 and is the top seasonal hit in all metrics; it rises 8-6 on the Streaming Songs chart, also a new best, passing its prior No. 7 high reached last holiday season (28.1 million U.S. streams, down 1 percent, according to Nielsen Music); 9-7 on Digital Song Sales (14,000 downloads sold, down 6 percent); and 32-24 on Radio Songs (34.5 million in airplay audience, up 14 percent).
Carey co-wrote and co-produced "Christmas" with Walter Afanasieff, who, in 2014, upon the song's 20th anniversary, told Billboard, "To me, it's kind of a cosmic occurrence that happens once every five billion years. Thousands of original Christmas songs have been written in the last 20 years. It's not like no one writes Christmas songs; everyone is trying to get a Christmas song. But for whatever reason, 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' just became that song."
Also helping the song's momentum in recent years, Carey began her All I Want for Christmas Is You: A Night of Joy and Festivity residency, which has run in multiple years since beginning in New York in 2014.
"I believe," Afanasieff mused, "'All I Want for Christmas is You' will be the most successful, popular Christmas song of all time."
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Post by Naos on Dec 17, 2018 20:56:04 GMT -5
Two "Little Drummer Boy"'s both peaked at #13?
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Post by Gary on Dec 17, 2018 21:12:15 GMT -5
Unlucky drummer?
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Post by imbondz on Dec 18, 2018 1:47:28 GMT -5
Anyone know what # White Christmas peaked before Billboards top 100?
Didn’t a lot of these old Christmas songs peak higher before Billboard?
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Post by Gary on Dec 18, 2018 3:08:32 GMT -5
White Christmas was #1 for multiple years - prior to Mariah, the last Christmas song to chart multiple years in the top 10
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Post by Gary on Dec 18, 2018 6:53:42 GMT -5
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree is #18 on the 12-22 chart - has a shot at re-peaking
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Post by superbu on Dec 21, 2018 9:01:42 GMT -5
I wonder what the best selling digital Christmas songs are? I haven't seen any Soundscan figures from December in a long time. I would love to know if some of these older songs that were never gold records, never certified as such, anyway, have managed to sell over a million digital copies.
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Post by imbondz on Dec 21, 2018 13:58:49 GMT -5
Two "Little Drummer Boy"'s both peaked at #13? one was Little Drummer Boy the other was The Little Drummer Boy.....................lol |
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Post by jenglisbe on Dec 21, 2018 14:13:23 GMT -5
I wonder what the best selling digital Christmas songs are? I haven't seen any Soundscan figures from December in a long time. I would love to know if some of these older songs that were never gold records, never certified as such, anyway, have managed to sell over a million digital copies. I think the last time Billboard gave us totals for holiday songs was 2 years ago: 1. Mariah Carey, “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” 3.2 million 2. Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez, “Do You Want To Build A Snowman” (from Frozen), 1.6 million 3.Trans-Siberian Orchestra, “Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24),” 1.3 million 4. Justin Bieber, “Mistletoe,” 1.1 million 5. Brenda Lee, “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” 1 million 6. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, “Christmas Canon, “ 918,000 7. Faith Hill, “Where Are You Christmas?,” 897,000 8. Jose Feliciano, "Feliz Navidad," 808,000 9. Bobby Helms, "Jingle Bell Rock," 780,000 10. Wham!, "Last Christmas," 751,000 Obviously totals have increased since then, but probably not a ton since digital sales are so low now. I'd imagine "Christmas Canon" and "Where Are You Christmas?" are near or past 1 million downloads now, though. |
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Dec 21, 2018 16:20:22 GMT -5
On a related article:
12/21/2018 by Harley Brown
As Mariah Carey’s holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” assumed its position on the Billboard Hot 100 in the weeks leading up to Dec. 25, reaching its highest-ever spot at No. 6, some more unusual chart activity was also taking place. Gene Autry’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” both released in the 1940s, debuted on the Hot 100 for the first time this year. In fact, a slew of decades-old festive favorites, including Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1965, and Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, hit new highs on the Billboard charts in 2018.
These resurrections are not a Christmas miracle, but the result of more homes with families requesting to hear songs about the most wonderful time of year via voice-activated virtual assistants by companies like Amazon and Google -- and the increased adoption of Amazon Music Unlimited, which debuted in October 2016 and has been gaining steam over the past year-plus. In April, Amazon Music vp Steve Boom told Billboard that its number of paid subscribers more than doubled over the prior six month period, to "tens of millions," with a demographic that encompasses the tech-illiterate and listening in the home, and has been spurred this season by dedicated holiday playlist curation by Amazon Music’s team of programmers.
“Holiday music, more so than any other genre, is a shared listening experience at this time of year and that alignment is really tight, and it's driving a lot of Christmas listening,” says Alex Luke, director of global content programming for Amazon Music. "We've seen it grow as voice has grown, as Echo and Alexa have grown."
Amazon Music’s marketing and editorial pushes have paid off. “We've had holiday growth at our music service from a customer perspective, and what you're seeing, especially with this holiday season, is that combined with the strength that we have with all our music,” says Amazon Music director Ryan Redington. Its Holiday Favorites station is on track to deliver more than a billion streams this year, and total global music plays since Thanksgiving week have nearly doubled compared to the same time period last year. For example, “All I Want for Christmas” received 54.9 percent more streams the first week in December than it did during Christmas week last year. (It helps that Amazon Music listeners really, really love holiday music: they streamed four times the industry average in the United States.)
Luke and Redington have taken a multi-pronged approach to capitalizing on Amazon’s particular resonance with subscribers over the holidays, encouraging membership deals and rolling out focused advertising for the streaming service coupled with personal assistant Alexa. For a limited time, customers could sign up for Amazon Music Unlimited for three months for only 99 cents (subscriptions are $9.99 per month, $7.99 for Prime members) to the tune of Katy Perry’s Amazon Original “Cozy Little Christmas,” the centerpiece of 2018’s “A voice is all you need” campaign, which was first rolled out in August. As proof of concept, more users streamed “Cozy Little Christmas” on release week than any other single premiering on Amazon Music in the last four years in the U.S., and Perry’s holiday entry charted at No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart for terrestrial radio.
Amazon Music also spruced up its already substantial collection of holiday playlists and commissioned content. For lean-back listeners of all ages who are inclined to let Alexa have dealer’s choice, there’s the Holiday Favorites station, which mixes beloved standards with contemporary hits.
“My grandmother's in her 90s, my kids are four and six years old, and what Alexa is able to do is remove the friction,” says Redington. “They're both able to ask for holiday music very simply and very easily.” That has, however, led to some internal debate as to whether Autry’s original “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” or the version sung by Burl Ives, which appeared in 1964’s stop-motion animation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and is nostalgic for most staffers (and this writer), was more appropriate. “I grew up with the Burl Ives version, but we were seeing data that the Gene Autry version is the one that people love and know,” says Luke. “It's across more than a dozen Christmas playlists.”
More adventurous listeners might seek themed and visually enticing playlists like Christmas Tree Lighting and Waiting for Santa. "'Play holiday music’ is that primary entry point on voice, but on visual, the Ugly Sweater Party is going to grab you as a customer, and you're going to click through out of simple curiosity,” says Luke. Both playlists include holiday-specific commissions for the Amazon Original song series, which has been ongoing since 2014, from the likes of Train, Smokey Robinson, the Dandy Warhols and Jon Batiste. Even with playlists where you’re not sure exactly what you’re going to get (Christmas Road Rage, anyone?), the experience is customized as much as possible. Each time a listener skips a song or scans through the library for what they’re looking for -- or says, simply, “Alexa, I like this song” -- that feedback is incorporated into song selection.
As the market for Christmas music has expanded geographically -- Amazon Music and voice have landed in over 40 countries -- and people have begun buying seasonal albums from retailers like Target and Walmart earlier in the year, the future is bright for the kind of inter-generational holiday listening Amazon Music offers. “You see songs from the 1940s, the 1950s side by side with Katy Perry and Mariah Carey and Pentatonix, and you realize how important these songs have been, and now they're just part of the fabric of people's lives,” says Luke. “There's no other genre outside of holiday music where you can point to a 70-year-old song still being relevant and connecting emotionally with people.”
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Post by Naos on Dec 21, 2018 16:31:13 GMT -5
Two "Little Drummer Boy"'s both peaked at #13? one was Little Drummer Boy the other was The Little Drummer Boy.....................lol Yes, but they're the same song, no? |
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Post by jenglisbe on Dec 21, 2018 16:33:09 GMT -5
one was Little Drummer Boy the other was The Little Drummer Boy.....................lol Yes, but they're the same song, no? You're taking it too literally. Sure Billboard could have said "versions," but it's a Songs chart so they were being consistent with terminology. |
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Post by Gary on Dec 21, 2018 17:03:27 GMT -5
one was Little Drummer Boy the other was The Little Drummer Boy.....................lol Yes, but they're the same song, no? Different recordings, different versions |
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Post by Gary on Dec 21, 2018 17:08:12 GMT -5
How Amazon Music and Alexa Are Helping Boost Decades-Old Holiday Classics Up the Charts
12/21/2018 by Harley Brown
As Mariah Carey’s holiday classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” assumed its position on the Billboard Hot 100 in the weeks leading up to Dec. 25, reaching its highest-ever spot at No. 6, some more unusual chart activity was also taking place. Gene Autry’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” both released in the 1940s, debuted on the Hot 100 for the first time this year. In fact, a slew of decades-old festive favorites, including Burl Ives’ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from 1965, and Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock,” from 1957, hit new highs on the Billboard charts in 2018.
These resurrections are not a Christmas miracle, but the result of more homes with families requesting to hear songs about the most wonderful time of year via voice-activated virtual assistants by companies like Amazon and Google -- and the increased adoption of Amazon Music Unlimited, which debuted in October 2016 and has been gaining steam over the past year-plus. In April, Amazon Music vp Steve Boom told Billboard that its number of paid subscribers more than doubled over the prior six month period, to "tens of millions," with a demographic that encompasses the tech-illiterate and listening in the home, and has been spurred this season by dedicated holiday playlist curation by Amazon Music’s team of programmers.
“Holiday music, more so than any other genre, is a shared listening experience at this time of year and that alignment is really tight, and it's driving a lot of Christmas listening,” says Alex Luke, director of global content programming for Amazon Music. "We've seen it grow as voice has grown, as Echo and Alexa have grown."
Amazon Music’s marketing and editorial pushes have paid off. “We've had holiday growth at our music service from a customer perspective, and what you're seeing, especially with this holiday season, is that combined with the strength that we have with all our music,” says Amazon Music director Ryan Redington. Its Holiday Favorites station is on track to deliver more than a billion streams this year, and total global music plays since Thanksgiving week have nearly doubled compared to the same time period last year. For example, “All I Want for Christmas” received 54.9 percent more streams the first week in December than it did during Christmas week last year. (It helps that Amazon Music listeners really, really love holiday music: they streamed four times the industry average in the United States.)
Luke and Redington have taken a multi-pronged approach to capitalizing on Amazon’s particular resonance with subscribers over the holidays, encouraging membership deals and rolling out focused advertising for the streaming service coupled with personal assistant Alexa. For a limited time, customers could sign up for Amazon Music Unlimited for three months for only 99 cents (subscriptions are $9.99 per month, $7.99 for Prime members) to the tune of Katy Perry’s Amazon Original “Cozy Little Christmas,” the centerpiece of 2018’s “A voice is all you need” campaign, which was first rolled out in August. As proof of concept, more users streamed “Cozy Little Christmas” on release week than any other single premiering on Amazon Music in the last four years in the U.S., and Perry’s holiday entry charted at No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart for terrestrial radio.
Amazon Music also spruced up its already substantial collection of holiday playlists and commissioned content. For lean-back listeners of all ages who are inclined to let Alexa have dealer’s choice, there’s the Holiday Favorites station, which mixes beloved standards with contemporary hits.
“My grandmother's in her 90s, my kids are four and six years old, and what Alexa is able to do is remove the friction,” says Redington. “They're both able to ask for holiday music very simply and very easily.” That has, however, led to some internal debate as to whether Autry’s original “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” or the version sung by Burl Ives, which appeared in 1964’s stop-motion animation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and is nostalgic for most staffers (and this writer), was more appropriate. “I grew up with the Burl Ives version, but we were seeing data that the Gene Autry version is the one that people love and know,” says Luke. “It's across more than a dozen Christmas playlists.”
More adventurous listeners might seek themed and visually enticing playlists like Christmas Tree Lighting and Waiting for Santa. "'Play holiday music’ is that primary entry point on voice, but on visual, the Ugly Sweater Party is going to grab you as a customer, and you're going to click through out of simple curiosity,” says Luke. Both playlists include holiday-specific commissions for the Amazon Original song series, which has been ongoing since 2014, from the likes of Train, Smokey Robinson, the Dandy Warhols and Jon Batiste. Even with playlists where you’re not sure exactly what you’re going to get (Christmas Road Rage, anyone?), the experience is customized as much as possible. Each time a listener skips a song or scans through the library for what they’re looking for -- or says, simply, “Alexa, I like this song” -- that feedback is incorporated into song selection.
As the market for Christmas music has expanded geographically -- Amazon Music and voice have landed in over 40 countries -- and people have begun buying seasonal albums from retailers like Target and Walmart earlier in the year, the future is bright for the kind of inter-generational holiday listening Amazon Music offers. “You see songs from the 1940s, the 1950s side by side with Katy Perry and Mariah Carey and Pentatonix, and you realize how important these songs have been, and now they're just part of the fabric of people's lives,” says Luke. “There's no other genre outside of holiday music where you can point to a 70-year-old song still being relevant and connecting emotionally with people.”
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Post by Gary on Dec 24, 2018 13:35:57 GMT -5
Sixth holiday top 10 on the Hot 100: Williams' "Wonderful" becomes only the sixth yuletide hit ever to reach the Hot 100's top 10, and the second in a year after Carey's "Christmas" (which first reached the region last holiday season), with the advent of streaming helping both songs.
Highest-Charting Holiday Songs in the Hot 100's History
No. 1 peak, four weeks, beginning Dec. 22, 1958, "The Chipmunk Song," by David Seville & The Chipmunks
No. 6, Dec. 22, 2018, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey
No. 7, Jan. 8, 2000, "Auld Lang Syne," Kenny G
No. 7, Jan. 6, 1990, "This One's for the Children," New Kids on the Block&
No. 9, Feb. 21, 1981, "Same Old Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg
No. 10, Dec. 29, 2018, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams
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Post by Gary on Dec 24, 2018 19:43:34 GMT -5
Christmas in the charts 12-29 charts
#50 Christmas Baby Please Come Home, Darlene Love
#48 White Christmas, Bing Crosby
#47 Wonderful Christmastime, Paul McCartney
#45 Happy Xmas (The War Is Over), John Lennon
#42 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Perry Como
#41 There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays, Perry Como
#35 Here Comes Santa Clause Right Down Santa Clause Lane, Gene Autry
#34 Feliz Navidad, Jose Feliciano
#33 Sleigh Ride, Ronettes
#32 Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Dean Martin
#28 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. Gene Autry
#27 Last Christmas, Wham!
#17 The Christmas Song, Nat King Cole
#13 Jingle Bell Rock, Bobby Helms
#12 A Holly Jolly Christmas, Burl Ives
#11 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, Brenda Lee
#10 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, Andy Williams
#7 All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey
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Post by Gary on Dec 24, 2018 19:54:12 GMT -5
New peak for Brenda Lee, Bobby Helms, Andy Williams
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Post by Gary on Dec 25, 2018 12:36:51 GMT -5
John Lennon & Paul McCartney Holiday Classics Hit Hot 100 at Last, Among 20 Seasonal Songs on the Chart
12/25/2018 by Gary Trust
Plus, debuts from Perry Como to Katy Perry.
As previously reported, Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" tops the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 29) for a sixth week.
Plus, late legend Andy Williams ends a record gap of over 47 years between top 10 Hot 100 hits, as "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" rises 13-10, reaching the top 10 for the first time after he recorded the classic carol in 1963.
"Wonderful" is one of a sleighful of holiday hits, 20 in all, that appear on the latest Hot 100, including new singles this season by Katy Perry and Lauren Daigle that each debut.
(As previously noted, regarding holiday songs and their eligibility, or lack thereof, for the Hot 100 over the years, chart historian Joel Whitburn notes in his book Christmas in the Charts: "From 1963 through 1972, and from 1983 through 1985 [with minimal exceptions], Billboard published a seasonal Christmas Singles chart and did not chart Christmas singles on the Hot 100." Per current Hot 100 rules, in place in recent years, older songs, including seasonal titles, can rank in the top 50 if experiencing significant multi-metric gains, and multiple holiday standards re-enter or debut each season. Plus, streaming has helped several holiday songs reach new highs on the Hot 100.)
Let's run down all 20 yuletide tunes on the latest Hot 100.
No. 7, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Mariah Carey (down from No. 6)
No. 10, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," Andy Williams (up from No. 13, new peak)
The songs make for a historic double decoration, as multiple holiday titles rank in the Hot 100's top 10 simultaneously for the first time in the chart's 60-year history.
No. 11, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Brenda Lee (up from No. 18, new peak)
Lee's song jumps past its prior No. 14 peak, set in 1960, its first year on the chart (after she recorded it in 1958). It bullets at No. 12 on the Streaming Songs chart with 29.9 million U.S. streams, up 16 percent, according to Nielsen Music; roars 38-28 on Radio Songs (33.3 million in audience, up 15 percent); and dips 29-39 on Digital Song Sales but with a 2 percent gain to 7,000 sold.
"We cut that, as you do most Christmas songs, in the heat of summer," Lee recently recalled to Billboard of the recording session for "Tree." "I remember I walked into [legendary Nashville studio] the Quonset Hut, where I did everything. [Producer] Owen [Bradley] had it all decked out like Christmas. I was only 12 going on 13, so that was a biggie to me. Everybody was dressed Christmas-y and the lights were low. He had a Christmas tree. It was wonderful."
No. 12, "A Holly Jolly Christmas," Burl Ives (up from No. 21, new peak)
The late crooner boasts his highest Hot 100 rank since his first two entries, and sole top 10s, in 1962: "Little Bitty Tear" (No. 9 peak, that February) and "Funny Way of Laughin' " (No. 10, that May). He places in the top 20 for the first time since Aug. 25, 1962, when "Call Me Mr. In-Between" reached No. 19.
No. 13, "Jingle Bell Rock," Bobby Helms (up from No. 15, new peak)
No. 17, "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)," Nat King Cole (up from No. 24, new peak)
Similar to Ives, the late Cole ranks in the Hot 100's top 20 for the first time since November 1963, when "That Sunday, That Summer" reached No. 12. (He was not officially credited on daughter Natalie Cole's virtual duet with her father on "Unforgettable," which hit No. 14 in 1991.)
No. 27, "Last Christmas," Wham! (up from No. 31, new peak)
No. 28, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Gene Autry (down from No. 27)
No. 32, "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow," Dean Martin (same rank)
No. 33, "Sleigh Ride," The Ronettes (up from No. 41, new peak)
The Ronettes score their first top 40 Hot 100 in 54 years; "Walking in the Rain" became their fifth and, until this week, most recent such single, reaching No. 23 in December 1964.
No. 34, "Feliz Navidad," Jose Feliciano (up from 42, new peak)
Feliciano notches his third top 40 Hot 100 hit and first in 50 years; "Light My Fire" and "Hi-Heel Sneakers" hits Nos. 3 and 25, respectively, in 1968.
No. 35, "Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)," Gene Autry (up from No. 40, new peak)
No. 41, "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays," Perry Como (debut)
No. 42, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters (debut)
Como, who died in 2001 at age 88, adds his 21st and 22nd Hot 100 entries. He had last appeared on the list with his only other charted holiday song: "Christmas Dream" reached No. 92 in December 1974.
No. 45, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir (debut)
John Lennon's signature seasonal song reaches the Hot 100 for the first time, after it was first released in 1971. It debuts at No. 45 on Streaming Songs (13.2 million, up 33 percent), while gaining by 10 percent to 16.6 million in airplay audience.
The late Beatle appears on the Hot 100 for the first time in over 30 years, since "Jealous Guy" (also with The Plastic Ono Band) reached No. 80 in fall 1988. Until this week, he last ranked higher with "Nobody Told Me," a No. 5 hit in 1984. Yoko Ono makes her first Hot 100 visit since 1981, when "Walking on a Thin Line" stepped to No. 58.
Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson's remake of "Happy Xmas," featuring Sean Ono Lennon, John and Yoko's son, debuts at No. 7 on Holiday Digital Song Sales (6,000 sold).
No. 47, "Wonderful Christmastime," Paul McCartney (debut)
McCartney's 1979 carol makes its first Hot 100 appearance, as it debuts at No. 50 on Streaming Songs (12.1 million, up 27 percent) and increases by 13 percent to 18.5 million in radio reach. McCartney adds the 47th Hot 100 entry of his solo career (including his work with Wings), to go along with 71 by The Beatles.
Lennon and McCartney debut solo songs on the Hot 100 simultaneously for the first time. They had last appeared on the chart together as soloists on the chart dated March 1, 1975 (in between the 1971 and 1979 releases of their current charted titles), when Lennon's "#9 Dream" ranked at No. 13 and McCartney's "Junior's Farm"/"Sally G" was at (a notable number in Beatles lore) No. 64.
No. 48, "White Christmas," Bing Crosby (re-entry)
Both the late Crosby and his iconic ballad reach the Hot 100 for the first time since 1962, when the song hit its No. 12 high.
No. 50, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," Darlene Love (debut)
Love achieves her fifth Hot 100 hit; she notched her first three in 1963 and her fourth, "All Alone on Christmas" (from the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York), in January 1993, reaching No. 83. Love first recorded and released "Baby" in 1963.
No. 68, "Cozy Little Christmas," Katy Perry (debut)
Along with the 18 decades-old holiday hits above, two 2018 songs enter, led by Perry's Amazon Music exclusive (on Capitol Records). As previously reported, the song takes over at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
No. 90, "The Christmas Song," Lauren Daigle (debut)
Daigle collects her second Hot 100 entry, below "You Say," at No. 59. The tracks rank at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Hot Christian Songs chart.
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Post by superbu on Dec 26, 2018 4:35:52 GMT -5
I wonder what the best selling digital Christmas songs are? I haven't seen any Soundscan figures from December in a long time. I would love to know if some of these older songs that were never gold records, never certified as such, anyway, have managed to sell over a million digital copies. I think the last time Billboard gave us totals for holiday songs was 2 years ago: 1. Mariah Carey, “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” 3.2 million 2. Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez, “Do You Want To Build A Snowman” (from Frozen), 1.6 million 3.Trans-Siberian Orchestra, “Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24),” 1.3 million 4. Justin Bieber, “Mistletoe,” 1.1 million 5. Brenda Lee, “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” 1 million 6. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, “Christmas Canon, “ 918,000 7. Faith Hill, “Where Are You Christmas?,” 897,000 8. Jose Feliciano, "Feliz Navidad," 808,000 9. Bobby Helms, "Jingle Bell Rock," 780,000 10. Wham!, "Last Christmas," 751,000 Obviously totals have increased since then, but probably not a ton since digital sales are so low now. I'd imagine "Christmas Canon" and "Where Are You Christmas?" are near or past 1 million downloads now, though. Thanks, Jenglisbe! |
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Post by chartslovergermany on Dec 26, 2018 6:53:08 GMT -5
i‘m so proud of her🤧😁😍
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Dec 26, 2018 17:45:17 GMT -5
Just wanted to note that Cozy Little Christmas was #35 and Lauren Daigle's The Christmas Song #47 while Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) was #18 in the Holiday 100. This means quite a few holiday songs could have charted in the Hot 100 if the top 50 recurrent rule didn't apply to those older songs.
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Post by imbondz on Dec 27, 2018 12:49:09 GMT -5
What # did AIWFCIY go to in its initial year of release? I’m assuming it made the Top 100.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Dec 27, 2018 12:57:49 GMT -5
What # did AIWFCIY go to in its initial year of release? I’m assuming it made the Top 100. The song was not commercially released in 1994 and as a result it was ineligible to chart on the Hot 100. After Billboard changed its rules in 1998, the song made its first appearance chart on the Hot 100 in January of 2000 at #83. It wasn’t until the rules changed again in 2012, that the song made its 2nd appearance on the HOT100 chart. |
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Post by Gary on Dec 27, 2018 12:59:17 GMT -5
What # did AIWFCIY go to in its initial year of release? I’m assuming it made the Top 100. Got to #12 on the airplay charts during Christmas 1994 First Hot 100 appearance was at #83 in the 1-8-00 chart |
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Post by imbondz on Dec 27, 2018 16:42:11 GMT -5
What # did AIWFCIY go to in its initial year of release? I’m assuming it made the Top 100. Got to #12 on the airplay charts during Christmas 1994 First Hot 100 appearance was at #83 in the 1-8-00 chart I wish someone could figure out exactly what number it would have gone to in 1994 if the airplay only rule didn’t exist. |
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Post by Gary on Dec 27, 2018 16:49:39 GMT -5
What # did AIWFCIY go to in its initial year of release? I’m assuming it made the Top 100. The song was not commercially released in 1994 and as a result it was ineligible to chart on the Hot 100. After Billboard changed its rules in 1998, the song made its first appearance chart on the Hot 100 in January of 2000 at #83. It wasn’t until the rules changed again in 2012, that the song made its 2nd appearance on the HOT100 chart. At this point you in Time holiday singles were only allowed to chart the first year of release. The 1999 remix was the first year it was a single |
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Post by Gary on Dec 27, 2018 20:27:35 GMT -5
All I Want For Christmas Is You - Yearly peaks
Hot 100
1999-00 #83
2012-13 #21
2013-14 #26
2014-15 #35
2015-16 #11
2016-17 #16
2017-18 #9
2018-19 #3
Hot 100 Recurrent
2001-02 #6
2002-03 #5
2003-04 #7
2004-05 #5
2005-06 #1
2006-07 #1
2007-08 #1
2008-09 #1
2009-10 #1
2010-11 #1
2011-12 #1
Airplay
1994-95 #12
1995-96 #35
1996-97 #35
1999-00 #62
2012-13 #38
2013-14 #26
2014-15 #40
2015-16 #21
2016-17 #18
2017-18 #18
2018-19 #18
Streaming
2013-14 #28
2014-15 #11 (On Demand Chart only)
2015-16 #8
2016-17 #13
2017-18 #7
2018-19 #1
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Post by WolfSpear on Dec 29, 2018 10:03:56 GMT -5
What exactly made Mariah's song a "classic"?
I mean, it got moderate airplay at best between 1995 and 1999.
The remix must have generate some form of interest, but that Hot 100 position had to have come 100% from airplay of the original.
Actually... did the remix even get airplay... anywhere? R&B stations would be my only guess.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Dec 29, 2018 15:29:45 GMT -5
I know Record Research notes that the No. 83 charting was the remix, but I have my doubts. Does anybody recall hearing that version on radio? Maybe because that was around the time of the airplay-only rule change, it "slipped through the cracks." :)
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Post by Gary on Dec 30, 2018 0:31:59 GMT -5
I know Record Research notes that the No. 83 charting was the remix, but I have my doubts. Does anybody recall hearing that version on radio? Maybe because that was around the time of the airplay-only rule change, it "slipped through the cracks."  I thought it was the remix too - apparently it was the 1994 recordings Did not chart on Hot 100 Sales Was #62 on airplay #10 on AC From Fred Bronson in Chartbeat in the actual magazineHOLIDAZED: My favorite Mariah Carey recording, `All I Want For Christmas Is You" (Columbia), makes the Hot 100 at last, debuting at No. 83. The 1994 recording wasn't eligible until the chart policy changed to allow album tracks on the list.
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